The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

in diameter and of a Marechal Neil-rose color.
BOSTON Advertiser: All persons who make a
| New Years resolution again to write the
word Christmas with Y deserve the happiest
| of New Years.
| SOME of the Californians use Calf instead
| of Gal" as an abreviation of their States
| name, being thus oddly impelled by the SINH
| larity of Gal" to ''Col."
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, it Has been suggested.
should oblige his countryrnen by making out a
listof English noblemen whom they could safely
introduce to their families.
IT is interesting fact that although the ap-
pointment of Postmaster general Villas to the
secretaryship of the interior is considered a
promotion. 1t causes Mrs Villas to move down
one place in the line of Cabinet ladies at the
White House receptions.
SENATOR FAULKNER of West Virginia when
boy of ten years, got lost in the mountains
while hunting, and wandered into a den of
bears where he succeeded in killing four of the
animals with no other weapon than single
barreled shotgun. The Senator is regarded as
the greatest bear hunter in the State.
WILHELM HAsENcLEvER, the wen-known
leader of the Social Democratic party in Ger
many. who has been taken to a lunatic asylum.
shows no hope of recovery. Since 1871 he was
president of the General German Workingmen's
Union and of the Socialistic Workingmens par
ty. his dementla Is great loss to his follow
erS
careful about punctuation. The Hofer Tage-
blatt short time ago said a decoration had
been conferred upon Count Won Holstein. BY
an oversight an exclamation point instead of a
period appeared at the end of the sentence and
for this the authorities sieZed the whole issue
and instituted suit against the editor for afro
cious libel.
SHORTLY after Christmas the Queen of Swe-
den will arrive in England, says London Truth,
''and she will reside for several months at
either Bournemouth or Torquay She is not
very popular in Sweden, where She has never
been forgiven boxing. her first arrival at
Stockholm bride, the of the daughter
of a Norwegian statesman, who was one of her
maids of honor
LEWISTON Journal: Time was when Literary
fellers" didn't disdain politics In September.
1914. John G. Whittier wrote to Henry w.
Longfellow urging him to accept the nominal
ton for Congress, which Mr. Whittier had the
disposal of. Our friends" he wrote, ''think
they could throw for thee thousand more votes
than for any other man." Mr. Longfellow said
no, but there Whittier going around with
states in his pocket just as the boys do
FUND of $40, 900 is being raised in New York
to support the widow of Admiral J. W A
Nicholson, whom the losses her husbands
investments have left destitute. third of the
amount has been given by Gen. j. @. Wilson,
J. w. Drexel, L. 2. Morton, Cornelius Wander
bilt, Coils P. Huntington, Benjamin III. Fields,
Mrs r. l.. Stuart and the Misses Rhinelander
in the navy with distinction for more than a
century.
a NEW YORK man has invented a device to
save horses in case of fire. 1t can be worked
either by electricity or by hand. At certain
temperature a bell will ring. and the moment
the bell shall ring the doors will fly open. the
horses win be unhitched and two small streams
of water will strike each horse in the face. To
escape the water the horses will back out of the
stalls and once out of them they will have an
Of a NVaU nf hr1I1 cr1,
the open doors
IT has long been known in Italy that Carl
baldi left autobiography and various stories
have been current regarding it. One of these
said that the manuscript was in such a con-
fused condition and so bulky that it impos-
sible to print it. 1t appears. however, that this
is not true. and it is announced that the
autobiography will soon appear in volume of
five hundred pages Garibaldi's manuscript is
said to be copied out very neatly by him and to
take UP only 667 pages of printing paper.
Boston Posi-: was hurrying home one cold
night last week when found myself behind a
woman in rusty black. who was leading by the
hand very little girl with a pinched and pa
thetic face Mamma, mamma" l heard the
child say Il am going to get you Christmas
present with my pennies, but / am afraid
shall have to take you with to find the shop.
Where do they sell diamondsa' If affection
could be coined into money. what magnificent
SOLITAIRE" those pennies would have pur-
chased.
THERE strange scene few days ago in
Edinburgh. An old and ordinary copy of the
Bible was put up, and the bidding went on be-
tween two ladies until the incredible price of
$500 reached, when the hammer fell amid
loud cheers. 1t transpred that the Bible, the
intrinsic value of which perhaps half a
CROWN had belonged to deceased relative of
the ladies, each of whom was determined to
obtain it, and as they could afford to indulge
their fancy their relatives estate benefited
greatly by their obstinacy.
al NEVER in my life," says John Wanamaker,
OF Philadelphia. fused such a thing as a poster,
a dodger or a handful. My plan for fifteen
years has been to buy so much space in a news
paDer and FL it up with what l wanted.
would not give an advertisement in a newspaper
Of four hundred circulation for j, 900 dodgers or
posters. If L wanted TO sell cheap jewelry or
run lottery scheme I might posters. but
wouldn't insult decent reading public with
handbils." Which accounts for the number of
figures it takes to represent his earthly possess
ions.
by the of Wemyss
Was badly troubled with dremyss.
One night this dreamt